Siyar al-mutaʾakhkhirin 14.6.2

14.6.2

The Viceroy, without betraying what he thought of the man, contented himself with writing at the bottom of the paper these words : "Do you take him in your own pay, if you will; but I cannot afford to add any more to your brigade." Mir-kobra informed of this answer, took it ill, and wanted to quit the army directly; and this discontent affecting his patron, the latter took occasion to observe to the Viceroy, that should the Lord Seyd come to quit the army, he should be necessitated to quit it himself. He was answered: That shall be just as you please. Ata-ollah-qhan, to whom Mir-kobra had promised as by a revelation from above, the possession of Bengal; and who had been so simple as to take that promise by way of bond, under the inspired impostor's handwriting, and also so senseless as to believe it equally authentic with any revelation in the world; no sooner heard those words, than he quitted the army without giving himself one moment of delay; he took Mir-kobra with him, and retired to his house of Muxad-abad. At this very time one of Mir-djaafer-qhan's kinsmen having departed this life, the Viceroy conceived the scheme of regaining that General's affection, by paying him a visit, under pretence of joining in the ritual prayers, that were to be pronounced over the deceased.